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Rep. Jay Obernolte has an aggressive timeline for getting his new bipartisan Artificial Intelligence proposal taken up in the House \u2014 and a path for getting a congressional hearing on a major part of the plan.<\/p>\n

In an interview Monday night, the California Republican said he hoped to turn the draft framework he unveiled last Thursday into multiple bills, with the first expected to be introduced in the coming weeks. Each bill would be considered by its committee of jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the challenges that we have is that the bill crosses so many different policy committee jurisdictions,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I think we’ve got to divide it up into different titles that are in the jurisdiction of various policy committees and hear those individually.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that the majority of the provisions contained in his 269-page blueprint for regulating AI \u2014 including the authorization for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation and the National AI Research Resource \u2014 would fall under the purview of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Obernolte said the Science panel — of which he is a member and chairs the Subcommittee on Research and Technology — was aiming to convene a hearing on AI at the end of the month, where his proposal could take center stage.<\/p>\n

Obernolte ambitions, however, could quickly run up against reality: He and the Democratic co-architect of the proposal, Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts, still need to sell their ideas to their respective party leaders and their colleagues, who are themselves sharply divided over what role the federal government should play in regulating the emerging technology.<\/p>\n

But Monday night, Obernolte insisted he was continuing to talk to the White House about his effort, saying he was \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d the administration would eventually back his bill, which would among other things override some state AI laws and require top developers to disclose the safety and security risks of their new models.<\/p>\n

He also said he and Trahan were continuing to seek out additional co-sponsors beyond the original four who have committed to signing onto a formal piece of legislation: Reps. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.), Scott Peters (D-Calif.), Scott Franklin (R-Fla.) and Erin Houchin (R-Ind.)<\/p>\n

Asked about feedback so far, Obernolte called it \u201cpretty thoughtful,\u201d and said criticism from both ends of the ideological spectrum has been fairly split.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say that there’s a broad swath of people in the middle of the issue that are respected and thoughtful on the issue that have been praising the framework,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then you’ve got voices on both sides \u2014 some that say that we’re not doing enough, some that say we’re doing too much \u2014 and the volume on both of those points of view have been about the same. So I think that’s an indication that we got it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Jay Obernolte has an aggressive timeline for getting his new bipartisan Artificial Intelligence proposal taken up in the House \u2014 and a path for getting a congressional hearing on a major part of the plan. In an interview Monday night, the California Republican said he hoped to turn the draft framework he unveiled last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}